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The invisible problem with sending people to Mars - Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The moon has water too, and melting it is NBD, so they're actually equal there for real estate purposes.

For scientific purposes liquid water is interesting, but it's much easier to send a robot than all the various amenities needed for human scientists, and probably always will be.

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